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Balakrishnan J is a highly experienced Senior Principal Engineer currently working at Octasic with over 8 years of experience in Linux/Android kernel device drivers and board support packages. He has a strong background in Linux/Android Memory management, including kswapd, direct reclaim, LMK, OOM, CMA, RTCC, ZSWAP, and ZPOOL modules. Balakrishnan has in-depth expertise in the development of Kernel modules and Device Driver modules for Linux and has strong knowledge in Linux Kernel Internals, including Process/Memory Management and Scheduling, Kernel Synchronization, Timers, Interrupt Handlers, and Bottom Halves. Balakrishnan has hands-on skills in Android framework and good skills in Linux kernel debugging, including experience in Trace32 Lauterbach debugger. He has also fixed a few Linux kernel open-source bugs in Samsung devices. In addition, he has experience in ARM 64 bit arch/kernel. Balakrishnan has previously worked at Samsung as a Technical Lead, where he was responsible for working as a kernel developer in Linux/Android memory management module. He also worked at e-con systems as a Senior Software Engineer, where he was responsible for Linux/Android board support package (board bring-up) development and porting low-level device drivers. Balakrishnan holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from Mahendra Engineering College, Anna University, which he obtained in 2006. His tech stack includes Android, Senior Software Engineer, Mobile, and Software Engineer. Overall, Balakrishnan has 16.53 years of relevant experience in the field.